On the whole the finances of the Government are most satisfactory.

The requirements of existence have passed beyond the standard of necessity into the region of luxury.

But it really ought to be taken up and regulated by law, in order to prevent the President and the departments being subjected to pressure every time there is a holiday for additional leave of absence.

If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and, of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.

Peace and prosperity are not finalities; they are only methods.

The main source of these unexampled blessings lies in the integrity and character of the American people.

In the domestic field there is tranquility and contentment, harmonious relations between management and wage earner, freedom from industrial strife, and the highest record of years of prosperity.

In the case of events that everybody knows will occur it ought either to be provided by law or not provided for at all.

The rapid and legitimate expansion of our air service, military and commercial, is an achievement in which we can all take pride.

We are committed irrevocably to a balanced Budget and that carries the assurance that the only revision of our tax laws which will be considered is a revision downward.

Our splendid Treasury is not a bottomless, automatically replenishing fountain of fiscal supply, and its outflow must be eternally watched and carefully and wisely directed into proper channels.

But each year they turn up in the hands of the people that are in no wise connected with the press like legislative agents in Washington, brokerage offices in different cities, so that I think the news reporters or news agents to whom my…

I hope this year it can be kept confined exclusively to news services and not fall into the hands of others.

There isn't very much legislation, so far as I have been able to discover, that is exceedingly pressing that is new.

I haven't seen any report of a suggestion that it is said here was made in the House of Lords yesterday proposing an English-American mutual arms limitation.

It doesn't occur to me offhand that that would be feasible.

Realizing that these are the most important products of life in the open country, it has never failed to place upon them its main emphasis.

The United States Government was trying to fix the price of silver by law, which, of course, was bound to fail.

Of course, our country would consider any suggestion that the responsible authorities of the British Government wanted to submit to us.

The direct benefit which accrues to the borrowers from these banks, because all National, State, and local taxes are thus remitted on their borrowings, is probably not less than $500,000,000 a year.

The main reason for this has been the sound foundation on which it stands.

For the purpose of assisting the news distribution we make these early deliveries of the message.

The Government of the United States wants to see the condition of the farmer continue to improve.

We can see now that the fundamental difficulty was overproduction, complicated by unsound money.

I want to get the Message done so that it can be early in the hands of the press and that leads me to make a suggestion that is bom of my past experience, that the advance copies that are given out are given out exclusively for the use of…